Backwards-compatible /proc and sysctl conntrack entries

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Tue Mar 27 19:13:22 UTC 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Users also have firewall configuration scripts that rely on these
>> entries.
> 
> Damn.  That does suck.
> 
> So how long does upstream intend to keep CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT
> around?

Until FC-6 dies, hopefully... :)

A new comment in bz 234174 is interesting:

|  Or, ideally, the kernel rpm should look into obvious places (e.g.
|  /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config, /etc/sysctl.conf) and do some perl -pie magic.





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